After crossing 3,400 miles of the Pacific Ocean last year to inspect a tuna canneryon American Samoa,a U.S.Food and Drug Administration(FDA)inspector asked for copies of some records from the StarKist Co. "Charlie the Tuna,"the company's ...
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The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive opinion for the use of Novartis’ Xolair (omalizumab) as an add-on therapy for the treatment of chronic spontaneous ...
Hetlioz (tasimelteon) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat a sleep condition caused by a completely blind person's inability to regulate the body clock by recognizing light from dark. The condition is ...
Tags: blind person's inability, new drug
Do you ever wonder how controversial ingredients end up in your food in the first place? For instance, why are energy drink companies allowed to add novel ingredients such as botanical extracts to their products? And why were companies ever ...
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The USDA catfish inspection program, first authorized in 2008, is continued in the 2014 farm bill, which also includes a first-of-its-kind “crop insurance” program for catfish farmers. Most of the so-called political experts ...
28 Jan 2014 With a dozen annual conference and exhibition events under its belt, Pharmapack Europe is gearing up for one that has innovation at its epicentre. Compliance and safety issues are directing much of the innovation seen in ...
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By letting DNA strands grow together with gold, scientists at Uppsala Berzelii Centre for Neurodiagnostics and Science for Life Laboratory have developed a brand new concept for super sensitive diagnostics of different diseases. The study ...
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A lot of evidence shows that a patients' race or ethnicity is associated with differences in how health care providers communicate with them, the health care they receive, and their health outcomes. In HIV care, a key to those outcomes is ...
Tags: HIV care, drug, AIDS, M.Barton Laws
BD Launches the PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, today announced the commercial availability of the CE-marked PAXgene® Blood DNA Tube in Europe. The ...
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Only 1 in 10 people who need palliative care - that is medical care to relieve the pain, symptoms and stress of serious illness - is currently receiving it. This unmet need is mapped for the first time in the "Global atlas of palliative ...
Tags: WPCA, HIV, drug-resistant tuberculosis, health-care systems
A so-called implantable insulin delivery device could one day free people with type 1 diabetes from the need for multiple daily injections, scientists say. "Diabetes is a difficult-to-treat condition, and yet keeping in very good balance ...
Teens who drink high-caffeine energy beverages such as Red Bull or Monster may be more likely to use alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, a new study suggests. The findings suggest that the same personality traits that attract kids to energy ...
Drugs.com, the leading online clinical drug resource, and TrialReach are partnering to provide patients with information and access to treatments that are still under development. Announced today at Rock Health, this new partnership will ...
Researchers at the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey have found that overall, concentrations of arsenic, selenium, and mercury in bighead and silver carp from the lower Illinois River do not appear to be a health ...
Tags: Chemosphere, EPA, Jeff Levengood, health
Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced positive results from a Phase 2a clinical trial of OMS824, the company's phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10) inhibitor, in which the drug was well tolerated and demonstrated comparable systemic ...